This UTV news report opens with shots around the streets of coastal town Portrush with a soundtrack of a Russian choir. We then cut to a television set showing the choir singing. Reporter Ivan Little interviews the Turkish owner of a television shop in Portrush who explains how he has been demonstrating to customers the benefits of satellite technology with the ability to pick up Russian television channels. He admits that the sound perhaps isn’t ‘100%’ right but suggests that things will improve and that customers will soon be able to get British channels in the years ahead. He also admits that there hasn’t been much interest from the public as of yet and that the only queries have been from the local university.

He reveals that the cost of the set up to obtain the Russian channels is £1,100 – a truly eye watering sum of money back in 1985. At the time of this report there were only four channels available to British viewers but within a very few short years the owner of the shop had been proved right. Demand for satellite dishes for TV channels swept across the UK with both BSB and Sky offering separate selections of all-new channels by the end of the 1980s.